Hospital innovation leaders
This index includes only people named on official program or leadership pages used in the current profiles. Titles and links are public professional information. Personal email addresses are not collected.
Aaron Burton
Senior Director of Emerging Technology, Rochester Regional Health
Rochester Regional Health · New York
Aimee Quirk
Senior Vice President and Chief Corporate Development Officer, Ochsner Health; Chief Executive Officer, Ochsner Ventures
Ochsner Health · Louisiana
Alex Fortenko
Emergency Medicine Director of Clinical Innovation
Alice Li
Executive Director, CTL
Cornell University / Weill Cornell Medicine · New York
Allie Hurt
Associate Director, Iowa Nurse Innovators
University of Iowa Health Care (UI Ventures, Office of Innovation) · Iowa
Amir Naiberg
Associate Vice Chancellor and CEO & President, UCLA Technology Development Group
UCLA / UCLA Health · California
Andrew Danielsen
Chief Business Development Officer
Mayo Clinic · Minnesota
Andrew J. Danielsen
Chief Business Development Officer
Mayo Clinic · Minnesota
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Anita Watkins
UNC Health Ventures team
UNC Health · North Carolina
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Anthony Chang, MD
Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer, CHOC
Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) · California
Arjan Quist, PhD
Executive Director of INVO
Barry Stein, MD
Vice President and Chief Clinical Innovation Officer
Hartford HealthCare · Connecticut
Becky Buchen
Senior Vice President, Innovation and Transformation
OSF HealthCare · Illinois
Bevin Cohen
Director
Mount Sinai Health System · New York
Bill Sheahan
Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, MedStar Health; Executive Director, MI2
MedStar Health · Maryland
Bobby Helmedag
Managing Director, Orlando Health Ventures
Orlando Health · Florida
Brant Heise
Managing Director
MemorialCare Health System · California
Briana L. White
Manager of Clinical Quality and Care Management, Dartmouth Health Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; hackathon organizer
Dartmouth Health · New Hampshire
Cameron Baston, MD
Faculty Associate Director
Penn Medicine (University of Pennsylvania Health System) · Pennsylvania
Catherine Burch, MS, CXA, CUA
Vice President of Innovation
ChristianaCare · Delaware
Charleson S. Bell, PhD
Innovation Activism and Altruism Instructor; Director of Entrepreneurship and Biomedical Innovation
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Tennessee
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Chris Coburn
Chief Innovation Officer
Mass General Brigham · Massachusetts
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Chris Grant
Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, The Permanente Federation; oversees ventures
Kaiser Permanente · California
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Chris Parker, PharmD
Director, UI Ventures, and Chief Technology Officer, Medical Innovation
Christian Rische
Managing Director
Corewell Health (formed from Spectrum Health and Beaumont Health) · Michigan
Christoph Pittius, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Research Business Development
City of Hope · California
Christopher (Toff) Peabody
Founder and Director, UCSF Acute Care Innovation Center; Director, EM Innovation Fellowship
UCSF Health · California
Christopher Neville
Director of Industry Research, SUNY Upstate Medical University
SUNY Upstate Medical University · New York
Cliff Michaels
Executive Director
The University of Kansas Health System / University of Kansas Medical Center · Kansas
D. Geoffrey Vince, PhD
Chief of Innovations; Chair, Biomedical Engineering
Cleveland Clinic · Ohio
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Daniel Hommes, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer
UT Southwestern Medical Center · Texas
Danny Sachs
Director, Innovation Fellows Program
University of Minnesota / M Health Fairview · Minnesota
David Marshall
Chief Nursing Officer, UTMB Health (led creation of the MakerHealth Space)
UTMB Health (University of Texas Medical Branch), John Sealy Hospital · Texas
David Rosenberg
President and CEO, IU LAB
Indiana University Health · Indiana
David S. Perlin, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President, Center for Discovery and Innovation
Hackensack Meridian Health · New Jersey
David Sudduth
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Health Sciences Center at Prisma Health
Prisma Health (with Clemson University) · South Carolina
David Winwood, PhD, RTTP
Vice President, Technology Transfer and Commercialization
Wake Forest University School of Medicine / Advocate Health · North Carolina
Dean Swindle
Executive Vice President, Novant Health and President, Novant Health Enterprises
Novant Health · North Carolina
Denise Prince
Founder and Managing Partner (as reported)
Geisinger · Pennsylvania
Donald P. Taylor, Ph.D., M.B.A., C.L.P.
Chief Ventures Officer, UC Davis Health Ventures
UC Davis Health · California
Emily Barnhill, M.H.A.
Vice President, Strategic Industry Ventures
Ena Williams
Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, Yale New Haven Hospital
Yale New Haven Hospital (Yale New Haven Health) · Connecticut
Eric Topol, MD
Founder and Director
Scripps Research · California
Erienne Olesh
Executive Director of Innovation and Commercialization
WVU Medicine / West Virginia University · West Virginia
Erik Iverson
Chief Executive Officer
University of Wisconsin-Madison / UW Health · Wisconsin
Erik Lium, PhD
President, Mount Sinai Innovation Partners; Chief Commercial Innovation Officer, Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System / Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · New York
Erika Swift
Director, Center for Medical Innovation
Penn State Health / Penn State College of Medicine · Pennsylvania
Errol Arkilic
Chief Innovation Officer and Executive Director
UC Irvine Health (University of California, Irvine) · California
Frances Streeter, JD
Associate Vice President for Intellectual Property Legal Affairs, Office of Innovation & Technology Transfer
François Baneyx
Vice Provost for Innovation and Director of CoMotion
University of Washington / UW Medicine · Washington
George Prendergast, PhD
President and Chief Executive Officer
Main Line Health · Pennsylvania
Greg Gdowski
Executive Director, Center for Medical Technology & Innovation
University of Rochester Medical Center (University of Rochester) · New York
Haiyin Chang, PhD, MBA
Senior Licensing Associate and Patent Agent
Children's National Hospital / Children's National Research Institute · District of Columbia
Hank Capps, MD
President, Catalyst by Wellstar, and Executive Vice President, Chief Information and Digital Officer, Wellstar Health System
Wellstar Health System · Georgia
Hanmin Lee; Shuvo Roy
Faculty Co-Directors
UCSF Health · California
Hiyam Nadel
Director, Center for Innovations in Care Delivery; inaugural Francesco Pompei, PhD and Marybeth Pompei, DNS, RN Endowed Chair in Nursing Innovation
Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General Brigham) · Massachusetts
Hooks Johnston
Managing Director, Inova Strategic Investments (with Pete Jobse, Managing Director)
Inova Health System · Virginia
Howard A. "Skip" Burris, III, MD
President, Sarah Cannon Research Institute
HCA Healthcare · Tennessee
Irene Abrams
Vice President, Technology Development and New Ventures; head of TIDO
Boston Children's Hospital · Massachusetts
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
J. Todd Abrams, Ph.D.
Program leader
Temple Health / Temple University (Lewis Katz School of Medicine) · Pennsylvania
Jack Gomer
Principal, MultiCare Capital Partners
MultiCare Health System · Washington
James D. Laur, JD
Chief Intellectual Property Officer; head of Cedars-Sinai Technology Ventures
Cedars-Sinai · California
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Janis Paradiso
Director, Office of Biotechnology and Business Development
Montefiore Einstein (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) · New York
Jason Szczuka
President, Accrete Health Partners
Bon Secours Mercy Health · Ohio
Jason Young
Senior Director of Commercialization
JD Friedland, MBA
Executive Director, Innovations Investments and Ventures
Cleveland Clinic · Ohio
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Jeanne Cunicelli
President, UPMC Enterprises; Executive Vice President, UPMC
UPMC · Pennsylvania
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Jeff Cohen, MD
Chief Physician Executive for Community Health and Innovation, Allegheny Health Network
Allegheny Health Network (with Innovation Works) · Pennsylvania
Jeff Stolte
Managing Partner (with Dan Galles and Branden Fini)
Providence · Washington
Jen Magaziner, MBA, MPH
Vice President, Digital Health; co-lead, Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator
Boston Children's Hospital · Massachusetts
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Jennifer Liebermann
Founding Director, Garfield Innovation Center
Kaiser Permanente · California
Jennifer McCaney, PhD
Executive Director, UCLA Biodesign; Associate Director, UCLA CTSI
UCLA Health / David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA · California
Jessica Cao
Co-Director
UW Health / University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health · Wisconsin
Joe Runge, JD, MS
Associate Director
University of Nebraska Medical Center / University of Nebraska at Omaha · Nebraska
John Brownstein, PhD
Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children's Hospital
Boston Children's Hospital · Massachusetts
John Brownstein, PhD
Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer
Boston Children's Hospital · Massachusetts
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
John Horack
Leadership team member, Enterprise for Research, Innovation and Knowledge
The Ohio State University / Ohio State Wexner Medical Center · Ohio
John Rochelle
System Director for Digital Strategy and Innovation
Jordan S. Harmon
Chief Innovation and Commercialization Officer, Hospital for Special Surgery
Hospital for Special Surgery · New York
Josh Geballe
Managing Director, Yale Ventures
Yale University / Yale School of Medicine and Yale New Haven Health · Connecticut
Josh Makower, MD
Director and Co-Founder, Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign
Stanford Medicine / Stanford Health Care · California
Joshua B. Bederson
Executive Director; Professor and System Chair of Neurosurgery
Mount Sinai Health System · New York
Kara Tomlinson
Executive Director of System Care Delivery and Innovation, Nebraska Medicine
Nebraska Medicine / University of Nebraska Medical Center · Nebraska
Karen Giuliano
Co-Director, Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation, UMass Amherst
UMass Amherst (Elaine Marieb College of Nursing and Riccio College of Engineering) · Massachusetts
Kathy Nugent, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Vice President, Chief Biotechnology & Innovation Officer
UAB Medicine / University of Alabama at Birmingham · Alabama
Keisuke Nakagawa
Executive Director, UC Davis Health Cloud Innovation Center and Director of Innovation, Digital CoLab
UC Davis Health · California
Kevin Boggs, MBA, PhD
Director
Medical College of Wisconsin / Froedtert ThedaCare Health · Wisconsin
Kevin Wasserstein
Executive Director, Stanford Medicine Catalyst
Stanford Medicine (Stanford Health Care and Stanford Medicine Children's Health) · California
Kimani Toussaint, Jr.
Director, Center for Digital Health; Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Initiatives, Brown School of Engineering
Brown University Health (Lifespan) / Brown University · Rhode Island
Kimberly Muller
General Partner
UCHealth (with CU Anschutz Medical Campus and Children's Hospital Colorado) · Colorado
Kipum Lee
President, UH Ventures
University Hospitals · Ohio
Kosh Ghosh, MS, MBA
Executive Director, Innovation Program
Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago · Illinois
Krista Nelson
Director of Innovation Development
Children's Mercy Kansas City · Missouri
Launette Woolforde
Executive Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive, Northwell Health
Northwell Health · New York
Lisa Placanica, Ph.D., CLP
Senior Managing Director, Center for Technology Licensing at Weill Cornell Medicine
Lisa Prasad
Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Henry Ford Health
Henry Ford Health · Michigan
Lisa Prasad
Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Henry Ford Health
Henry Ford Health · Michigan
Lisa Zuckerman
Senior Vice President, Treasury and Strategic Investing; co-manager of the Strategic Investment Fund
CommonSpirit Health (formed from Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health) · Illinois
Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM
Director, Distinction in Medical Innovation Program
Emory Healthcare / Emory University School of Medicine (Department of Medicine) · Georgia
Louise Lammers, PhD
Director, Business Development, Emerging Assets (i3 Accelerator), Mount Sinai Innovation Partners
Mount Sinai Health System (Mount Sinai Innovation Partners) · New York
Lulu Wang, MD
Fellowship Program Director, Digital Health and Innovation Fellowship
MedStar Health (MedStar Institute for Innovation) · District of Columbia
Manu Tandon
Chief Information Officer, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Beth Israel Lahey Health (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) · Massachusetts
Marc Sedam
Vice President, Technology Opportunities and Ventures
NYU Langone Health / New York University · New York
Margo Minissian
Executive Director, Geri and Richard Brawerman Nursing Institute; Simms/Mann Family Foundation Chair in Nurse Education, Innovation and Research, Cedars-Sinai
Cedars-Sinai · California
Marion Leary
Director of Innovation, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Medicine affiliate) · Pennsylvania
Mark Coticchia
Corporate Vice President for Innovation
Baptist Health South Florida · Florida
Mark Paul
Executive Director, Center for Medical Innovation, University of Utah Health
University of Utah Health · Utah
Mary Lou Kanaskie
Director, Office of Nursing Research and Innovation
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · Pennsylvania
Matt Feczko
Managing Partner
Highmark Health (parent of Allegheny Health Network) · Pennsylvania
Matt Hermann
Senior Managing Director
Ascension · Missouri
Matthew Warrens
Managing Director of Innovation
UnityPoint Health · Iowa
Mayank Taneja, MBBS, MBA
Vice President, Venture Investments
OSF HealthCare · Illinois
Megan Reichert
Director of Innovation, Northern Region
Bon Secours Mercy Health · Ohio
Michael Dixon, PhD
President and CEO
University of Nebraska Medical Center / Nebraska Medicine · Nebraska
Michael M. Khayyat, MBA, MHS, CPA
Enterprise Vice President, Business & Corporate Development
Jefferson Health / Thomas Jefferson University · Pennsylvania
Michael Mirro, MD
Chief Academic Research Officer, Parkview Health
Parkview Health · Indiana
Michael Schlosser, MD, MBA
Senior Vice President, Care Transformation and Innovation
HCA Healthcare · Tennessee
Mitesh Patel, MD
Vice President, Chief Clinical Transformation Officer (one of four executives directing the Clinical Innovation Institute)
Ascension · Missouri
Nadine Beauger, PhD, MBA
Senior Director, Therapeutic and Medical Device Accelerator
Boston Children's Hospital · Massachusetts
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Nancy M. Albert
Executive Director and Associate Chief Nursing Officer, Office of Nursing Research and Innovation, Zielony Nursing Institute
Cleveland Clinic (Stanley Shalom Zielony Institute for Nursing Excellence) · Ohio
Naveena Yanamala, PhD
Director of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (digital transformation core team); center concept and design led by Partho Sengupta, MD
RWJBarnabas Health · New Jersey
Neil Veloso
Vice President for Innovation and Technology Commercialization
Nationwide Children's Hospital · Ohio
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Nicholas Dreher, MD
Medical Director, Population Health
The MetroHealth System · Ohio
Nichole Mercier, PhD
Assistant Vice Chancellor & Managing Director
Washington University in St. Louis / BJC HealthCare · Missouri
Nick Hammond, PhD
Associate Vice President, Innovation & Commercialization
Nickolas Mark
Managing Partner, Intermountain Ventures
Intermountain Health · Utah
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Nikki Graham
Vice President of Nursing, Clinical Practice, Innovation and Education, OSF HealthCare
OSF HealthCare (OSF Innovation) · Illinois
Nirdesh K. Gupta, PhD
Managing Director, Cedars-Sinai Technology Ventures and Accelerator
Cedars-Sinai · California
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Ofra Weinberger
Interim Executive Director, Columbia Technology Ventures (Senior Director of Commercialization & Associate VP for IP and Tech Transfer)
Columbia University / Columbia University Irving Medical Center · New York
Omkar P. Kulkarni, MPH
Chief Innovation Officer, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Children's Hospital Los Angeles · California
Parth Chakrabarti
Executive Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Business Development, UMass Chan Medical School
UMass Chan Medical School (UMass Memorial Health) · Massachusetts
Paul A. Testa
Chief Medical Information Officer, NYU Langone Health
NYU Langone Health · New York
Paul Roben, Ph.D.
Associate Vice Chancellor, Innovation and Commercialization
University of California San Diego / UC San Diego Health · California
Peter A. Noseworthy, M.D.
Medical Director, Department of Business Development
Mayo Clinic · Minnesota
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Raina Merchant
Chief Transformation Officer, Penn Medicine
Penn Medicine (University of Pennsylvania Health System) · Pennsylvania
Rakesh Suri, PhD, MD
Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer
Jefferson Health / Thomas Jefferson University · Pennsylvania
Rasu Shrestha, MD
Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation and Commercialization Officer
Advocate Health · North Carolina
Rebecca Rokos, JD, MS
Associate General Counsel, Innovation and Research
Rush University System for Health · Illinois
Richard Mulry
President and CEO, Northwell Holdings
Northwell Health · New York
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Richard Roth
Chief Strategic Innovation Officer, CommonSpirit Health
CommonSpirit Health · Illinois
Richard Zane, MD
Chief Innovation Officer and Co-Founder
UCHealth / University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus · Colorado
Robert Pugliese
Program Co-Director, JeffSolves MedTech, Health Design Lab
Jefferson Health / Thomas Jefferson University · Pennsylvania
Robin Rasor
University Associate Vice President for Translation and Commercialization
Duke University / Duke University Health System · North Carolina
Ryan Buckley, MD
MIDP Director and IDEA Lab Instructor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Tennessee
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Ryan J. Shaw
Chief Nurse Innovation Officer, Duke University Health System; Director, Health Innovation Lab; Professor, Duke University School of Nursing
Duke University Health System / Duke University School of Nursing · North Carolina
S. Trent Rosenbloom, MD, MPH, FACMI, FAMIA
MIDP Associate Director
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Tennessee
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Sam Shen
Director; Vice Chair of Clinical Operations and Quality
Stanford Health Care / Stanford Medicine · California
Sandra Powell-Elliott
Vice President and Chief Innovation and Commercialization Officer
Hackensack Meridian Health · New Jersey
Sara Vaezy
Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Digital Officer
Providence · Washington
Scott Arnold
Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Innovation Officer
Tampa General Hospital · Florida
Scott Magnuson, MD
Chief Medical Officer, AdventHealth Nicholson Center
AdventHealth · Florida
Scott Nordlund
Chief Strategy and Growth Officer, Banner Health (led formation of Banner Innovation Group)
Banner Health · Arizona
Scott Powder
President, Advocate Aurora Enterprises
Advocate Health (formerly Advocate Aurora Health) · Illinois
Sean Thompson
Co-Director, TechNovum Accelerator, Office of Technology Commercialization
UT Health San Antonio (The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio) · Texas
Shawn Hoke
Program Manager, Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science
NYU Langone Health · New York
Sonja O'Malley, MBA, PMP
General Manager, Business Development and Licensing
Cleveland Clinic · Ohio
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Stephen C. Ekker, Ph.D.
Program leader
Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin · Texas
Steve Miff, PhD
President and CEO
Parkland Health · Texas
Sunit P. Jariwala
Program leader
Montefiore Einstein · New York
Suresh Balu, MS, MBA
Director, Duke Institute for Health Innovation, and Associate Dean, Innovation and Partnership, Duke University School of Medicine
Duke University Health System (Duke Health) · North Carolina
Susan Ahern
Vice President of Innovation, MaineHealth
MaineHealth · Maine
Susan Smith Birkhoff
Director of Technology Research & Education, ChristianaCare; creator of the Nursing Research Fellowship in Robotics and Innovation
ChristianaCare · Delaware
Tarra Kerr
Assistant Vice President for Quality, Service, and Safety
Texas Children's Hospital · Texas
Taura L. Barr
Director, Innovation Fellowship; Associate Professor, Ohio State College of Nursing
The Ohio State University College of Nursing / Ohio State Wexner Medical Center · Ohio
Thomas Luby, PhD
Chief Innovation Officer, TMC Innovation
Texas Medical Center Innovation (Texas Medical Center) · Texas
Thomas M. Maddox, MD, MSc
Executive Director, Healthcare Innovation Lab
BJC HealthCare / Washington University School of Medicine · Missouri
Thomas Marten
Coulter Program Director
Michigan Medicine / University of Michigan · Michigan
Tiffany Kelley
Co-Director, Nursing and Engineering Innovation Center; Visiting Associate Professor, UConn School of Nursing
University of Connecticut (Elisabeth DeLuca School of Nursing and College of Engineering, UConn Tech Park) · Connecticut
Tim Raderstorf
Chief Innovation Officer, The Ohio State University College of Nursing
The Ohio State University College of Nursing / Ohio State Wexner Medical Center · Ohio
Tod Woolf
Executive Director, Technology Ventures Office
Beth Israel Lahey Health (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) · Massachusetts
Todd Headley
Chief Executive Officer
Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) · South Carolina
Todd Sherer
Associate Vice President for Research and Executive Director, Office of Technology Transfer
Emory University / Emory Healthcare · Georgia
Tom Luby
Chief Innovation Officer
Texas Medical Center · Texas
Tom Wilton
Senior Vice President, Innovation Ventures
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Pennsylvania
Official biography or source ↗ · verified August 30, 2026
Travis Cook, M.S., M.B.A., CLP
Senior Director, Technology Transfer
Oregon Health & Science University · Oregon
Vicki Hertzberg
Founding Director and Professor
Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing / Emory Healthcare · Georgia
W. Mark Saltzman, PhD
Co-Director, Yale CBIT; Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Yale New Haven Health / Yale School of Medicine (Yale Ventures) · Connecticut
Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD
Associate Dean for Innovation, Emory University School of Medicine
Emory Healthcare / Emory University School of Medicine · Georgia
Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD and Stanislav Emelianov, PhD
Co-Directors (Lam for Children's Healthcare of Atlanta; Emelianov for Georgia Tech)
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta · Georgia
Yaniv Bar-Cohen, MD
Co-Director, CTIP (as named in CHLA's 2018 announcement)
Children's Hospital Los Angeles · California
Yashodhara Dash
Vice President of Entrepreneurship and Commercialization
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · New York
Youseph Yazdi, PhD, MBA
Executive Director, Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design
Johns Hopkins Medicine / Johns Hopkins University · Maryland